Nuketown Radio Active

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The podcast opens with the old X-Men cartoon theme song in honor of X-Men 3: The Final Stand and the launches into a review of geek mom and geek parenting web sites. There's no fiction review this time around, as I'm still slugging my way through George R.R. Martin's A Feast for Crows but I do have my summer reading list, which includes books by John Scalzi, Warren Ellis, Jack Vance, Keith Baker, Peter Hamilton and Joe Hadleman.

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Zombies are the topic of the day with Radio Active #30, which features a review of Stephen King's zombie-novel Cell and Jonathan Coulton's Thing a Week song "Re Your Brains". Sites of Note looks at Joss Whedon's Serenity re-done in LEGOS, applauds All Games Considered on their one-year anniversary, and takes a look at Geek Culture. Finally, I've got a review of Coulton's music, including his first album, Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow and the aformentioned Thing a Week.

Another podcast, another Sunday spent painting. This time around I discuss Battlestar Galactica's Season 2 cliffhanger and offer a brief review of the film version of V for Vendetta (yes, I'm behind the geek times) before launching into reviews of the turn-based strategy game FreeCiv, the podcasts Misfit Brew and Does My Geek Look Big in This?, talk about the venerable webzine Quantum Muse, and present reader John Mierau's review of the "PodReady" portable podcatching client.

That's followed up by a review of Wizards of the Coast's Spell Compendium, which includes some of my thoughts on D&D 4th Edition and a bit of a rant on the importance of indexes.

I've been a stranger in a strange land the last two weeks as I've spent half my weekend hours in Home Depot, and the other half working hard to transform my old gaming room into my daughter's new bedroom. Fortunately I had plenty of geek podcasts to keep me company through the process.

Radio Active #28 features a bunch of podcasts, some old friends, some new acquaintances. It also features less-than-optimal sound quality as I struggle with a new non-headset microphone that isn't quite up to the job. The podcast is easily listenable, it just sounds like I recorded it in an aircraft hanger.